Greetings
I re-enact as a Fourteenth Century fighting bishop.
As part of this, I re-enact a short version of the Sarum Rite Mass.
I do not have a good memory- certainly not good enough to remember fifteen-to twenty minutes worth of Latin- so I bought a nice hand bound ( in leather) book with blank pages to write up the service in.
The pages are about 13.5 cm by 8cm.
However- me being me- once I written up the Mass in a reasonable medieval hand, I felt compelled to illuminate it.
Then I had to write down a grace( for when the Paladins were doing a display of noble table manners)
and then I thought I'd better do the wedding service as ( to date) I've officiated at three medieval weddings...
You see how it goes.
By the time I got to the wedding service, I was using oak-gall ink, illuminating with gold leaf and was often writing with a quill ( I use a porcupine quill).
It recently struck me that I've never blogged about this.
So , I decided I would start. I've now written and illuminated nearly sixty pages.
Don't panic- I'm only going to post some of my favourites...
Here is a Pater Noster ( Lord's Prayer) that I have recently completed.
I opted to use a larger font and spread it over four pages
No comments:
Post a Comment